hatchersciencesummer12 - Grade 5 Life Science

Life Science (LS)
Topic: interconnections within Ecosystems
Content: Organisms perform a variety of roles in the ecosystem.

Lesson Plans

Pond Life-exploring how organisms satisfy their needs and describes their roles in the environment (ORC)
Build an Animal (ORC)
Environmental Exchange Box- create an environment and switch with another class to see how they are different (ORC)
Eco-Cycle: Finding the parts of an ecosystem
Design a Regional "Eco Park"
Bio Blitz Mapping
Why Preserve Biodiversity?

Discrepant Events

Get an Animal's Eye View with Critter Cam (National Geographic website)

STEM Events

Simulations (Project WET, Project WILD, etc.)

Web sites/ORC sites

ORC # 3538 Pond Life
ORC # 3265 Fresh water and marine ecosystem interactive website
ORC # 325 Build an Animal
ORC # 6497 Environmental Exchange Box

Literature

Ecosystems by Debra J. Housel
Habitats and Ecosystems: An encyclopedia of endangered America by Mark Crawford
Pass the Energy Please by Barbara Shaw McKinney

Text References

Related Vocabulary words

ecosystems
predator
prey
biomes
organisms
biodiversity
food chain

Life Science (LS)
Topic: Interconnections within Ecosystems
Content: All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy

Lesson Plans

Raphanus sativus, Germination, and Inquiry (ORC # 311)
Blue Crab (ORC # 495)
Biology of Planets (ORC # 8161)
Animal Adaptations (ORC # 3439)

Discrepant Events

STEM Events

Simulations (Project WET, Project WILD, etc.)

Grasshopper Gravity- describe structure and function of a grasshopper; generalize wildlife ranges from small to large organisms
Barely Growing- compare similarities/differences between growth of black bears and humans